Essi Salokangas

Essi Salokangas, RPh (APA), MPH is an Assistant Clinical Professor with the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Alberta (2016) and a Master of Public Health in Health Promotion from the University of Alberta School of Public Health (2024).

In 2016, Essi co-founded the Adherence & Community Engagement (ACE) Team, a pharmacist-led interdisciplinary outreach team for people living with HIV and other blood-borne infections. She then joined Addiction Recovery and Community Health (ARCH), an inpatient and ED-based addiction medicine consult service at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, building out the role as their first integrated clinical pharmacist. 

Her academic and research interests are focused on harm reduction, evidence based treatments for substance use disorders, social determinants of health, and health equity.